Hendrik Jan van 't Boveneind
| Geslacht: | Man | |
| Vader: | Dirk van 't Boveneind | |
| Moeder: | Gerarda van Nieuwenhuizen | |
| Geboren: | 19 Aug 1907 | Woudenberg |
| Overleden: | 9 Aug 1978 | |
| Religie: | Ned. Hervormd | |
| Beroep: | marechaussee | |
| Aantekeningen: | Last Name: Boveneind van T First Name: Hendrik Jan Date of Birth: 19/08/1907 Date of death: 09/08/1978 Rescuer's fate: survived Nationality: THE NETHERLANDS Gender: Male Profession: POLICE OFFICER Place during the war: Haarlem, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue Place: Haarlem, Noordholland, The Netherlands Rescue mode: Hiding Providing forged documents Other File number: File from the Collection of the Righteous Among the Nations Department (M.31.2/1085) Lillian Reiss, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1902, came to Holland at the age of 31 and worked as a deputy manager in an Amsterdam shoe factory. She then worked as a housekeeper for a Jewish family until 1942, when the razzias around her home intensified and she began looking for a hiding place. Through underground contacts she was taken to a number of addresses in Haarlem. At the beginning of 1943 Lillian moved to the van t Boveneinds, where she stayed until after the war ended and she was able to get back on her feet. She was not the only one hiding with Hendrik Jan and Teuna (Teus) van t Boveneind. All the fugitives hidden there were treated very well and Hendrik Jan and Teus always made sure that their guests had enough to eat before they worried about their own food. Hendrik Jan was a plainclothes police officer in Haarlem who was deeply involved in underground activities. The first thing he did for Lillian was to get rid of her badly forged identity card and get her one that looked more genuine, which he took from a woman who had just died. He changed the picture and managed to get the document stamped by the police. Lillian could never leave the house since no one knew she was staying there. Hendrik Jan and Teus were often privy to advance information about planned razzias in the neighborhood and would immediately warn the other Jews whom they knew of in hiding. Hendrik Jans official job would then be to search those very same houses, always accompanied by a Dutch Nazi officer, since he was suspected of being sympathetic to Jews. The van t Boveneinds knew that they were putting their lives on the line. However, he and his wife felt it was their Christian duty to help people in distress in any way they could, without receiving any financial reward. Lillian stayed in close touch with the van t Boveneinds even after she immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s. On September 21, 1976, Yad Vashem recognized Hendrik Jan van t Boveneind and his wife, Teus van t Boveneind-van Beek, as Righteous Among the Nations. |
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| Huwelijkspartner: | Teuna van Beek | geb. 11 OKT 1909 overl. 11 MRT 1996 |
| Huwelijk: | XXXX | onbekend |